Boston Massacre Reconsidered: Was It A Massacre?

The featured image brings together images of Dr. Zabin and Adel Aali from the interview, superimposed on the Betsy Ross flag, alongside cover image of Dr. Zabin’s book The Boston Massacre: A Family History, with the following text banner: Everything Changed — For Boston and America.

Updated: May 21, 2026 Introduction In this interview: “But really, what I came to realize is that the, you know, the things that we can know, are not necessarily the things that the parties at the time cared about hiding.” Watch this section in the video below (00:25:24). Was the Boston Massacre inevitable? For its […]

Boston Massacre Reconsidered: Dr. Serena Zabin Interview, Part I

The featured image brings together images of Dr. Serena and Adel Aali from the interview, alongside Paul Revere's 1770 engraving of the Boston Massacre, with the following text banner: "March 5, 1770: What Really Happened?"

Updated: April 20, 2026 Reassessing the Boston Massacre and the Path It Paved to Revolution Long before open hostilities, revolutionary thinking was shaped by Enlightenment ideas, as Dr. Sophia Rosenfeld explains in our program. These intellectual developments—the Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, and the Age of Revolutions—reshaped how people in Europe and the […]